<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Week 1 HW: Biomaterial of PVA and PEG funtionalized with ECM proteins for burn wound healing :: geanella-carolina-flores-chicay</title><link>https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/geanella-carolina-flores-chicay/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.html</link><description>(1) What you would like to biomanufacture and why? I would like to manufacture biomaterials for burns. I see this as a big problem because it has cost too many lives. In countries like Ecuador, burns do not have a first aid product that could help reduce the damage that could be caused by the remaining heat. For this reason, I would like to construct a biomaterial that could hold bioactives from fruits and growth factors to reduce inflammation and remaining damage. I consider this an important issue abroad because in some homes there are children who could be burned unintentionally because they are playing or exploring. I do not want to find guilt at home; I want to give parents support in case their children get burned. I would like to program fibroblasts to produce a thin film rich in extracellular proteins such as collagen, fibronectin, laminin, and gelatin, and Fibroblast Growth Factors to replace the burned proteins, to be loaded in a hydrogel matrix. These proteins are essential for the development of first aid for burns because they can be dried. Therefore, it can be a dried product that just needs water to act and could be preserved for a long time.</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://pages.htgaa.org/2026b/geanella-carolina-flores-chicay/week-01-hw-project-ideas/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/></channel></rss>